Re: Describing source contents -- a little hack

From: Danny Ayers (danny.ayers@gmail.com)
Date: Tue May 10 2005 - 12:25:17 PDT

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    Sweet!

    On 5/10/05, Damian Steer <damian.steer@hp.com> wrote:
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    > Hi all,
    >
    > Libby's been talking about the problem of working out what to ask a
    > sparql source. That is, given a sparql source how can I work out
    > whether it's worth asking it about people, images etc.
    >
    > Here's a suggestion. Feel free to attack it :-) I've put up a simple
    > demo in javascript (uh-oh) at:
    >
    > <http://rdfweb.org:8080/jenadev/sparqlinto.html>
    >
    > It seems to work in mozilla and safari.
    >
    > What it does:
    >
    > 1) Given a sparql source (don't change that, btw, because of
    > javascript security restrictions) ask 'What kinds of thing do you
    > know about?'.
    >
    > 2) For each kind of thing it knows about put up a button.
    >
    > 3) Clicking the button will generate a sparql query that should be
    > tailored to that kind of thing.
    >
    > 4) You can execute that query and see the results (thanks to Libby's
    > code).
    >
    > What it's doing is asking the store about itself, and specifically
    > the classes it knows about. These classes are described in owl, which
    > you can see at:
    >
    > <http://rdfweb.org:8080/jenadev/desc.rdf>
    >
    > These are 'store local', e.g. my people are a subclass of foaf
    > people. Ideally this information would mined from the store.
    >
    > (Hmm, I should add some allValuesFrom for 'from' 'to', to indicate
    > the range is people).
    >
    > Anyway, it's pretty easy to construct prototype queries from the
    > class descriptions.
    >
    > Hopefully this approach is a bit better than listing properties used
    > in a store, since it has a little more structure.
    >
    > Damian
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